— um, i’m listening to

O Come, Emmanuel, and it’s such a gift! Because it isn’t just the voice of Tatiana and the beauty of that song, but it’s the memory. It reminds me of being in Saint Anthony’s Church and my son looking up at me, smiling and saying,

“you’re gonna be there this christmas”

That was the year I went there*, so long ago. I think over twenty years ago. I know it was over twenty years ago. And it is just so precious to me that I have that —

that that memory comes back to me

every time I hear the song and it’s just, I don’t know, it’s just precious. I’m so fortunate and blessed.

Dec 10, 2020 54 secs

wanted to edit this sooooo much! but it is a voice memo. it is what it is.

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*there* is Israel. After work, I went on to Jerusalem and Bethlehem ❤️. The trip is fictionalized in Like A Blue Thread (where else, right?). Searching for an image was challenging because the options were many: microphone (it is a voice memo), Christmas season, Bethlehem, gifts, choir …